A CRASHED ROMANCE.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 133, 20 May 1926, Page 3

A CRASHED ROMANCE.

, I A PATHETIC STORY. J “ The most pathetic story of real life as against reel life which has been published, for a long time is that con- ' oerning the stubborn quest of a great j lover, one Rudolph Raymondi, to find the lady of his dreams. Two and a I half years ago, in Rome, kis eye fell j on a poster of the Italian Red Cross ! bearing the portrait of a young woman j of singular beauty. Straightway Raymondi loved her with —as the poet says—-that love which was his doom ” (says the Independent ,of America). “At last the miracle happened In a photographer’s window in New York city he saw the likeness of his lady. Thus he learned her name and telephoned to her address. Now, by all the rules which govern romance, should have come that shy, delicate moment when for the first time this Argonaut of love and the object of his j search met and looked into each oth- j er’s eyes; now, by all the rules of ■Hollywood, should have ensued a close up of that first embrace. Alas, truth I is stranger and more cruel than fic- • tion! The lady of his dreams turned out to be happily married and the proud mother of an eleven-year-old

girl. She had the doting Raymondi arrested for annoying her, and a heartless magistrate held him without bail for disorderly conduct. Thus, in squalid failure and, disillusion ends a story possessed of all the elments of poetry and romance.”